Kateeva appointed Dr. Homer Antoniadis to the newly created role of EVP of technology. With decades of technical and executive leadership in OLED displays and printed electronics, Dr. Antoniadis will drive the company’s technology development programs, and help customers optimize Kateeva’s YIELDjet systems for their OLED mass-production lines.

“Homer is among the early pioneers that brought OLED-enabled products into the mainstream,” said Dr. Conor Madigan, Kateeva’s president and COO. “A skilled technologist, he is particularly knowledgeable in OLED and printed electronics. His technical expertise will help us continue driving forward our applications programs in thin film encapsulation and RGB pixel deposition.”

Dr. Antoniadis joins Kateeva from DuPont Silicon Valley Technology Center, where he served as CTO of the DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions Group following the company’s acquisition of Innovalight in 2011. Previously, he was CTO and VP of engineering at Innovalight, a developer of silicon inks for the photovoltaic industry.

Before Innovalight, he held positions with Osram Opto Semiconductors, Hewlett-Packard Labs and Xerox. At Osram, he led the worldwide OLED product development efforts, bringing a variety of display products fromR&D through engineering and into production. Prior to Osram, he steered HP Labs’ OLED program.

In 2016, he was appointed to the National Research Energy Laboratory (NREL) External Advisory Council, and in March 2017, he was awarded the title of NextFlex Fellow.

Dr. Antoniadis has more than 70 publications in OLED displays, polymer materials, crystalline and amorphous silicon photovoltaics, and is a named inventor on more than 30 issued US patents.